Today, Thursday, the Higher Follow-up Committee for the Arab Masses demanded the immediate release of the captive , Walid Daqqa . She referred to his "critical health condition", following his admission to the intensive care unit at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon , after he underwent surgery yesterday, Wednesday, during which part of his right lung was removed.

The prisoner, Walid Daqqa, suffered successive health setbacks during his 37 years of captivity, and since last March his condition has deteriorated as a result of a crime of medical negligence, after he was diagnosed with a rare cancer that affects the bone marrow on January 18, 2022.

A statement issued by the follow-up committee stated that it "demands the immediate release of prisoner Walid Daqqa, given his very critical health condition these days, so that he will be in the bosom of his family, after these long years in the prisons of tyranny and injustice."

The follow-up said, "The prisoner's survival in prison, despite his critical and dangerous situation, indicates a mentality of injustice and tyranny," stressing that "it is his human right to be in the arms of his family."

The follow-up called on the components of the committee and the popular committees to interact with the popular movement in order to release the captive Daqqa immediately.

The prisoner, Daqqa, has suffered successive health setbacks since last March, as a result of the crime of medical negligence, after he was diagnosed with myelofibrosis (a rare cancer that affects the bone marrow) on January 18, 2022, which developed from leukemia. ) that was diagnosed in 2015.

Yesterday, Wednesday, the family and campaign for the release of the prisoner, Daqqa, stated that he “needs intensive health care for the lungs, kidneys, and blood on the one hand, and on the other hand, he needs a very sensitive marrow transplant (noting that there is more than one donor) that requires a therapeutic environment that is not available.” The minimum number of them in light of the conditions of captivity, and the strict security practiced by the prison administration.”

The family and the campaign to release the prisoner Walid Daqqa called on local, regional and international human rights organizations to work to release the prisoner Walid Daqqa immediately to receive treatment in a hospital without restriction, in which the necessary conditions are met for the success of the medical operations he needs in the presence of his family. As well as the urgent formation of a medical team from the family, prisoners' institutions, and human rights institutions to visit Walid, and break the medical obscurity that is practiced on his condition.

Today, Wednesday, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported that the prisoner leader, Walid Daqqa, who suffers from a very serious health condition, was admitted to the operating room at 10:00 am today. She explained that "the operation came as a result of the accumulated deterioration in his health, and that the inflammation of the lungs that he is currently suffering from is due to the medical crime he has been subjected to in recent years." And the authority indicated that "his wife, Sanaa, and his daughter, Milad, were allowed to visit him for ten minutes before entering the operating room."

The prisoner, Daqqa, 60, from the town of Baqa al-Gharbia in the lands of 1948, has been detained since March 25, 1986, and he comes from a family consisting of three sisters and 6 brothers, noting that he lost his father during his years of detention.

The prisoner Daqqa is considered one of the most prominent prisoners in the occupation prisons, and he contributed to many paths in the detention life of the prisoners, and during his long career in detention, he produced many books, studies and articles, and contributed cognitively to understanding the prison experience and its resistance.

It is noteworthy that the occupation imposed a life imprisonment sentence against him, which was later set at 37 years, and the occupation added two years to his sentence in 2018, to become 39 years, according to the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs.